Puppy Love
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A sweetly humorous middle grade novel packed with action, basketball, and a dash of magical realism about friendship and family, first crushes, and belonging, from acclaimed author Gary Soto.
Thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza has a huge crush on his classmate, Sierra, but heтАЩs never going to win her affections if he stays a C student and keeps embarrassing himself on the basketball court. And it doesnтАЩt help that his best friend, Antonio, likes to tease him about it all a little too much.
But when Jordan dives into the waters of a dangerous irrigation canal to save a drowning puppy, heтАЩs suddenly got even more on his mind than kissing Sierra and making the starting team. Can he nurse the abandoned puppy back to health (and will his parents let him keep her)? Who threw her into the canalтАФand is it possible that there are┬аmore┬аpuppies needing rescue? And why are the cops suddenly at JordanтАЩs door, looking for him?┬а
ThereтАЩs something for every reader in this storyтАЩs mix of humor, sports, themes of thrilling independence, subtle strands of magical realism, and timely social commentary, all held together by a sweet and satisfying emotional core.
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Gary Soto is the author of Baseball in April, Taking Sides, Puppy Love, and many more books for young readers. He is a National Book Award finalist and a recipient of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, the Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature, the Tom├бs Rivera Book Award, the NEA Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award, the California Library AssociationтАЩs Beatty Award, and the PEN Center West Book Award. He lives in Northern California.
